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Re: British keyboard


  • Subject: Re: British keyboard
  • From: "Tim Hodgson" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:24:40 +0000

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:14 am +0000, email@hidden wrote:

>--On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:38 pm -0800
>email@hidden wrote:
>
>>> The British Keyboard mostly works (e.g. #) but I can't get two
>>> important symbols: ~ (tilde) and ^ (circumflex).  Help!
>>
>> Odd. I just tried this, and on my British kb they work - but only on the
>> second keypress (eg if you press the tilde key 6 times you get 3 tildes).
>
>Even that doesn't work for me.
>
>My keyboard is the one supplied with the 800MHz 15" flat-panel iMac.

This is a pismo Powerbook. I think the internal kb interface is actually
ADB rather than USB - maybe that's something to do with it.

Have you seen this from the X11 FAQ:

>Q: I'm having problem with my international keyboard and with key
>mappings?
>
>A: The initial public beta (v0.1) did not support international
>keyboards. The second Beta release (v0.2) picks up the keyboard layout
>from Mac OS X's Input Menu (enabled from the International preference
>pane). This setting is dynamic.
>If you wish use the keyboard mappings in /System/Library/Keyboards you
>can do so by enabling the following default : " defaults write
>com.apple.x11 keymap_file Francais.keymapping " . X11 will pickup the
>keyboard mapping when it is restarted.

There's a UK mapping in there - might be worth a try.

TimH
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